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Examples of cudgel in a Sentence

a farmer armed with a cudgel drove us off his land

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Republicans had, again, used Pelosi as a cudgel in the campaign -- bashing Ossoff as a national Democratic pawn who would go to Washington and vote for a radically liberal agenda championed by the California Democrat.

Rather than guarantee the payments in the meantime, Trump has tried to use them as a cudgel to get Democrats to negotiate either on Obamacare repeal or, during last month’s spending talks, to support his other priorities in return.

Trump-friendly news organizations seized on the detail, wielding it as a cudgel against Mr. Comey and focusing on his leaking while playing down other developments from the hearing, like his assertions that the president had lied.

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Origin and Etymology of cudgel

Middle English kuggel, from Old English cycgel; perhaps akin to Middle High German kugele ball